Capitalism has never been a subject for economists alone.
Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated
the cultural, moral, and political effects of capitalism for
centuries, and their claims have been many and diverse. The Mind
and the Market is a remarkable history of how the idea of
capitalism has developed in Western thought.
Ranging across an ideological spectrum that includes Hobbes,
Voltaire, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Hegel, Marx, and Matthew
Arnold, as well as twentieth-century communist, fascist, and
neoliberal intellectuals, historian Jerry Muller examines a
fascinating thread of ideas about the ramifications of capitalism
and its future implications. This is an engaging and accessible
history of ideas that reverberate throughout everyday life.